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Article: A RESTLESS MONTH
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 8, 1988
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Days grow short as we reach September, the ninth month, the great
southern movements of birds all across our continent; they flee the
chill that locks their northern nesting areas and kills off their
food. It's the time of spectacular flights -- hawks spiral in
aerial vortices a mile and more high, shorebirds stream through off
our shores, the sharp alarm notes of thrushes deepen the city's
late night stillness.
Sept. 9 -- Voracious bluefish herd schools of pogies or
menhaden into shallow harbor waters sending the terrified fish to
the surface.
Sept. 10-11 -- In 1954, Hurricane Edna set a September record
for rain when 5.64 inches fell in 24 hours. There have been eight
September ...